SOMEDECTET - A NEW ENSEMBLE FEATURING NICK MALCOLM, GAIL BRAND, MARK HANSLIP, SHABAKA HUTCHINGS, ALE

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SomedecTet

First performance of a new ensemble comprising of some of London’s most exciting young improvisers. Playing their own original compositions, their music draws upon jazz, free improvisation and contemporary composition. Expect melody and noise, poise and abandon in ever-changing combinations.

Nick Malcolm: "Nick Malcolm plays with fabulous technical flair and a maturity of tone beyond his years." The Big Bang, Oxford

Gail Brand: ".. . one of the most impressive brass soloists of her generation " Jazz Weekly

Mark Hanslip: "A versatile and lyrical tenor virtuoso with plenty to say" Time Out

Shabaka Hutchings: "Shabaka Hutchings is going places." John Fordham, The Guardian

Alexander Hawkins: "one to watch" Jez Nelson, BBC Radio Three

Hannah Marshall: "Marshall is amazingly resourceful, gritty and bustling where necessary but elsewhere keening, weeping." Jason Bivins, Signal to Noise

Olie Brice: "handles the double bass with the emotion of a true jazz man." Londonist

Dominic Lash: "endless efforts to veer left of every known note or chord" Newcastle Journal

Javier Carmona: "what sounds like swizzle stick and glass tube percussion from Javier Carmona impress as well" Jazzword